Manchester Protests
by Counter-mapping · Manchester · 15 stations · 11:49 min · 14.92 km · Walk
1. 2024 - (race) riots - Holiday Inn
0:53 min · 2024 - (race) riots
On the evening of 31 July, a group of approximately 40 demonstrators gathered outside a Holiday Inn in Manchester, which was pu...
2.44 km
2. 1779 - Luddite movement - Beswick Street
0:54 min · 1779 - Luddite movement
Textile workers rebel against the introduction of machinery which threatened their skilled craft - 1826, directed against p...
2.9 km
3. 1990 - Strange ways prison riot
0:56 min · 1990 - Strange ways prison riot
1826 m
4. 1931 - The Battle of Bexley Square
0:55 min · 1931 - The Battle of Bexley Square
1135 m
5. 1867 - First permanent women’s suffrage society - Jackson's Row
0:35 min · 1867 - First permanent women's suffrage society
formed to obtain the same rights for women to vote for Members of Parliament as those granted to me...
108 m
6. 1903 - Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) - Free Trade Hall
0:53 min · 1903 - Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) - Established in a meeting at the Free Trade Hall
156 m
7. 2021 - The People’s Assembly march against the Conservative party conference MCCC
0:36 min · 2021 - Conservative party conference
The People’s Assembly march against the incumbent political party began at Whitworth Park, on Oxford Road, and...
212 m
8. 1819 - Peterloo Massacre - St Peter's Square
0:57 min · 1819 - Peterloo Massacre
199 m
9. 1913 - Suffragettes attack on Manchester Art Gallery
0:44 min · 1913 - Attack on Manchester Art Gallery
The site of the first attack on artworks by suffragettes. On 3 April Lillian Forrester, Annie Briggs and Ev...
364 m
10. 1988 - Section 28 protests - Albert Square
0:54 min · 1988 - Section 28 protests
a series of laws across Britain that prohibited the “promotion of homosexuality” by local authorities
It caused many org...
333 m
11. 1821 - Manchester Guardian - Market Street
0:51 min · 1821 - Manchester Guardian
Formed as a response to the Peterloo Massacre thriving in the space vacated by the more radical Guardian Observer which ...
596 m
12. 2020 - George Floyd protests - Piccadilly Gardens
0:46 min · 2020 - George Floyd protests
2.79 km
13. 1981 - Moss Side riots - Moss Side Police Station
0:56 min · 1981 - Moss Side riots
Fuelled by mass unemployment and racial tension, particularly between local youths and the police.
954 m
14. Whitworth Park
Whitworth Park a common meeting place for protesters
Show here the Hands Off Gaza – Demonstration & March
907 m
15. Pankhurst Centre
0:59 min · The Pankhurst Centre is the birthplace of the suffragette movement.
2. 1779 - Luddite movement - Beswick Street
1779 - Luddite movement
Textile workers rebel against the introduction of machinery which threatened their skilled craft - 1826, directed against p...
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